Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this breakdown the morgue's 16 research librarians, each of whom is a specialist in a specific field (Foreign News, National Affairs, etc.), can fill a TIME writer's request for background material, or check a fact, in a hurry. They get about 5,000 requests a month. For a recent issue of TIME they were asked to determine (among other things): the wage rates of natives in the Solomon Islands; the form of poetry most similar to the rhumba rhythm; major U.S. cities controlled by Republican mayors; the number of U.S. synthetic rubber plants that have...
...weather, proverbially lovely in the Bavarian lake country, couldn't have been better. Pert little sailboats darting about the indigo water of the Tegernsee, against a background of hazy blue mountains, made the perfect setting for a season that had not been equaled in brilliance for six years...
Both Cummings and Boston also boast valuable game experience and a sound background in the fundamentals of the Harlow system. Cummings was on the starting eleven for a good portion of the '42 season, and Boston, who saw less action, will be remembered as the lad who snagged a Jack Comerford pass against Penn in the only bright spot of a 19-7 going over administered by the Quakers...
This week Bolivia had a civilian government. A junta headed by Supreme Court dean Nestor Guillen took over provisionally. The vicious military clique that had given Bolivia its fascist label faded, momentarily at least, into the background...
Pencil and paper were readied as the simulated class prepared to take notes on Professor Hooton's one minute talk, the subject of which was man's back-sliding into his mechanical way of life. With a blackboard background portraying the evolution of man's brain, the speech, which ended, "mechanized and moronic man moves toward extinction," was repeated for an hour while the six man March of Time crew strove for the proper effect...